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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech cover
Developers
Image & Form Games
Publishers
Thunderful Publishing
Release dates
Windows May 31, 2019
macOS (OS X) May 31, 2019
Linux May 31, 2019
Reception
OpenCritic 82
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Side view, Scrolling, Flip screen
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy, Card/tile, Platform, RPG
Art styles Anime
Themes Fantasy, Medieval, Steampunk
Series SteamWorld
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SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech on Wikipedia
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SteamWorld Heist 2016
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a singleplayer side view, scrolling and flip screen strategy, card/tile, platform and RPG game in the SteamWorld series.

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\SteamWorld Quest\<user-id>\*.cfg
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\SteamWorld Quest\<user-id>\*.xml
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\SteamWorld Quest\<user-id>\savegame_*.dat
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Enable borderless window[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open settings.xml.
  3. Change <Setting Key="Screen.Borderless" Value="0" /> value to 1.
  4. Change <Setting Key="Screen.Fullscreen" Value="1" /> value to 0.
  5. Change <Setting Key="Screen.WindowSize" Value="960;540" /> values to the desktop resolution.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Two keys per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Cursor based movement only.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Two buttons per action.
Controller sensitivity
Movement speed is constant.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes
, Wireless (DualShock 4 USB Wireless Adapter), Wired
V2 and Bluetooth untested.
Generic/other controllers
Through SDL2.
Button prompts
Switch Pro Controller supported and prompts included.[2]
Defaults to Xbox button prompts if unknown.
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Vibration is always enabled.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Prompts shows up with last control method used and sometimes come up as "unassigned" instead.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound. Talk sounds can be muted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most dialogue is only text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Toggleable option in settings.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language settings.
Language settings.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Official FAQ and support contact information.

Unexpected runtime error: Could not get My Documents folder

Change documents folder name[3]
  1. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\
  2. Change Personal value from %USERPROFILE%\Documents into %USERPROFILE%\My Documents.
  3. Close editor and start the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL
Input SDL2

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz, SSE2 support
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 750 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 4600
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2000 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 4600
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) SteamOS 2.0, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 750 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 4600
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible


References